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Critical Acclaim for The Night Stalker

Carlo has given us an astonishing portrait of a killer not seen since In Cold Blood.

Denis Hamil, NY Daily News

Weve all read novelists and true crime writers who try to put you inside-the-mind-of-the-serial-killer, but I cant remember one that succeeded with the physical and psychological intimacy of this collaboration between the writer and the killer himself.

John Strausbaush, New York Press

An exceptionally well-told true crime tale.

Publishers Weekly

Phil Carlo paints a disturbing portrait of cold-blooded killer, Richard Ramirez. In the true crime tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioners Song, Carlo compellingly tells the ghastly story from numerous points of view, including those of Ramirez and two ingenious sheriffs detectives who finally cracked the case.

People Magazine

... this book will provide true crime readers a chilling inside perspective of a serial killer.

Library Journal

Carlos book is filled with never-known-before details. He did his homework and wrote a very compelling true crime tale.

Ann McDermitt, CNN

This is the definitive book on Americas most feared serial killer. The writing is so intimate, you actually feel like a voyeur reading this book. A must read that will return you to the time when no one could sleep in Los Angeles because of the Stalker. A real page turner.

Tony Valdez, FOX TV Los Angeles

I stayed up until 3:00 A.M. because I couldnt put the book down. Quite a compelling read. The amount of details is truly amazing.

Jordan Legion, San Jose Mercury News

Absorbing... detailed, Phil Carlo allows the killers grotesque acts to be squarely in view.

The Los Angeles Times Book Review

Carlos book is a chilling, painstakingly researched account of the summer that kept residents of the San Gabriel Valley and later the entire state, captive behind closed doors and windows in fear. I read the book twice I was so taken by it.

Anne La Jeunesse, Northridge Chronicle

A hell of a tale.

Michael Smith, WABC RADIO

For sure one of the best true crime books ever written. A real page turner.

Steve Kaplouity, KLAQ RADIO, El Paso

I couldnt put the book down. The details are amazing, told from many points of view; very scary indeed.

Pamela Warrick, Los Angeles Times

The best book on murder Ive ever read.

Captain Ken Roe, NYPD Homicide

A true crime masterpiece. Carlo vividly brings to life one of this centurys most brutal kind of predator. A must read!

Steve Elshoff, Producer American Justice

THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF RICHARD RAMIREZ

PHILIP CARLO

Citadel Press
Kensington Publishing Corp.
kensingtonbooks.com

All copyrighted material within is Attributor Protected.

CITADEL PRESS BOOKS are published by

Kensington Publishing Corp.
119 West 40th Street
New York, NY 10018

Copyright 1996 by Philip Carlo

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written consent of the publisher, excepting briefquotes used in reviews.

All Kensington titles, imprints, and distributed lines are available at special quantity discounts for bulk purchases for sales promotions, premiums, fund-raising, educational, or institutional use. Special book excerpts or customized printings can also be created to fit specific needs. For details, write or phone the office of the Kensington sales manager: Kensington Publishing Corp., 119 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018, attn: Sales Department; phone 1-800-221-2647.

PUBLISHERS NOTE
Some names have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals connected to this story.

CITADEL PRESS and the Citadel logo are Reg. U.S. Pat. & TM Off.

First Kensington hardcover printing: May 1996
First Pinnacle mass market printing: August 1997
First Citadel trade paperback printing: September 2016

ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-3841
ISBN-10: 0-8065-3841-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-3851-8
ISBN-10: 0-8065-3851-1

Table of Contents

Dedicated to all who have lost their lives
at the hands of serial murderers.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I wish to extend my gratitude to the following individuals, without whose kind support this book would not have been possible:

LASD Homicide detectives Sgt. Frank Salerno and Gil Carrillo, Capt. Ken Roe, Dr. Dale Griffis, Dr. Richard Ash, Jeffrey Hafer, Mary Meagher, Louis Carlo, Dante and Antonina Carlo, Doreen and Joseph Mannanice, Robert and Maxine Ganer, Beth McDermit, J. McNally, Ivelisse Reyes, Marcos Quinones at the NYPD Police Academy, Anthony Danza, Danny Aiello, Paul Herman, Brian Hamill, Tony Sirico, Chuck Zito, T. Conforte, Philip Monaco, Patrick Laudisina, Michael Kostrewa, and the Ramirez family; also, my agent, Frank Weimann. And, of course, my editor, Paul Dinas, and all the terrific people at Kensington Publishing, especially Karen Haas, Laura Shatzkin, and Diane Wright.

I also wish to thank Michaela Hamilton at Kensington Publishing for encouraging me to write the update for this tenth-anniversary edition of our book.

Those who are unhappy
clutch at shadows, and to
give themselves an enjoyment
that truth refuses them, they
artfully bring into being all
sorts of illusions.

The Marquis de Sade
Crimes of Love

BOOK I

THE HUNTED AND THE HUNTERS

Swear on Satan you wont scream.

The Night Stalker

ONE

T he downtown area around the Los Angeles Greyhound Bus Terminal is a very dangerous place after dark. Colorful legions of thieves, muggers, fences, crackheads, junkies, alcoholics, and ten-dollar whores prowl like hungry sharks around a bleeding man. Known as skid row, people here often sleep in the filthy, vermin-infested streets where they dropped the night before. If the great, grand City of Angels had an asshole, the downtown area around the terminal would undoubtedly be it.

It was from this place that he came, nameless and nocturnal, as silent and deadly as cyanide gas. He always wore black, with the brim of a black baseball cap pulled down low; even his socks and shoes were black. Thus attired, he moved about in shadows, blending and becoming one with them, rarely seen until it was too late.

At 8:30 on the evening of June 27, 1984, he copped two grams of cocaine from Roberto, a skinny Colombian who sold pure rock from the little park with the benches and the palm trees just in front of the terminal. It was a simple matter of saying, Two grams and shaking Robertos hand, and all of a sudden the coke was in his hand. Roberto shook hands with dozens of people a day and was adept at passing the drug without being seen. It was like a magic trick.

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